Unwanted Marriage: Honey, No More Divorce!

Chapter 351: Do Not Disturb Wendy

"Christian asked me about the progression of the tendering exercise again," said Yonina as she sat on the couch inside Michael’s office. Then, she sipped on her coffee and said, "You’d better hurry up on your side. However, don’t submit it in detail as Christian might be suspicious. As you know, he is a very skeptical person. Try to get your staff to prepare a draft first."

There was no response from Michael at all. Yonina lifted her head and looked at Michael, who was sitting at one side. He lowered his head as if in deep thought. He did not hear what she had said at all.

Yonina then raised her voice a little, "Michael?"

Michael was still in a daze. Yonina then reached out her hand and pushed him.

Michael came to his senses instantly and turned around to look at Yonina.

"What’s wrong with you? Did you hear what I said just now?" asked Yonina, frowning when she saw his pale face. She felt a little worried, "Are you okay? Are you sick? You don’t seem to look well."

Yonina reached out her hand to feel his forehead. She wanted to see if he had a fever.

However, before her hand could reach him, Michael dodged away intentionally and said calmly, "I am fine. You don’t have to worry about me."

"Your face doesn’t look okay," said Yonina. "Don’t overexert yourself if you are sick,"

Yonina’s worry for him grew. The more she looked at Michael, the more she felt something was amiss. She stood up and said, "Let me send you to the hospital."

"I am fine," Michael lowered his head and sighed faintly, "I am just tired because I haven’t slept for two days."

"Haven’t slept for two days?" Yonina was confused. She knew that he had been busy for the last few days, such that he’d only slept for four to five hours a day. Although five hours were not enough for any adult to sleep off their fatigue, she had never seen Michael with such a pale face before.

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"Are you worried about the tendering exercise?" Yonina asked. "Even if you are going to draft it yourself, you needn’t stay up for two days without sleep."

"I..." Michael lowered his head. "I am sorry."

Yonina was stunned when he apologized to her all of a sudden.

"What’s the matter, Michael?" Yonina was a little scared now.

Michael did not seem to be himself today.

"I went to Rheinsville City to look for Wendy yesterday," said Michael restlessly as he held his hands together.

Indeed, he owed Yonina an apology. Yonina had decided to work with him previously because she’d trusted him. However, everything was in a mess now, and it was all because of him.

"You went to look for Wendy yesterday?" Yonina did not see this coming at all. "Then?"

Yonina could roughly guess the reason why Michael had gone to look for Wendy. She just wanted to know the conclusion. Judging from Michael’s look, it did not seem to be a happy ending.

"She hated me. She hated me so much that she doesn’t plan to forgive me at all," said Michael as he took a deep breath. "Moreover, she has no intention of giving up the HG Enterprise shares, and she doesn’t want to leave the company either."

Yonina had expected as much. Still, she had to close her eyes, feeling a little headache brewing when she heard the words spill from his mouth.

"Mr. Lucas, none of this would have happened if you hadn’t persisted in having everything your way back then," Yonina took a breath as she sat back on the couch. Although it sounded as if she was blaming him, she was actually helpless. "So, what are you planning to do now? Wendy’s capability is not to be underestimated. As long as she remains in HG Enterprise, she is a great asset to Christian."

"Indeed, I admit that I didn’t handle this matter well enough," said Michael. "I will hold full responsibility for this since I am in the wrong. I am the one who took the initiative to cooperate with you in the first place. Now that I have messed it up, I ought to give you an explanation.

What do you think if we terminate our partnership? Of course, I will compensate you for your loss. Christian has already given you a lump sum of money. Thus, Collins Group will not suffer from bankruptcy for the time being. In addition, I will give you an amount of money to resume operations. In future, you do not need to get me any information on Christian anymore. However, you are not allowed to reveal my information to Christian. Or, we could announce to the public that you’ve suffered a miscarriage, so I divorced you."

"Do you mean that you intend to fight Christian on your own?" asked Yonina as she looked at Michael.

"That’s right," said Michael, "In the past, I was so confident that I could bring Christian down sooner or later. However, Wendy’s incident made me realize for the first time that it has always been me. I am the biggest problem of all. I cannot implicate you in this matter anymore. Your main objective is to ensure the safety of Collins Group. If you disassociate yourself from the fight between Christian and myself, the Collins Group will not face any consequences, for a while at least. As for who wins in the end, I will resign myself to my fate."

"Ha!" Yonina did not expect Michael to turn into a completely different person in the last two to three days since she’d last seen him. She grabbed Michael’s hand and pulled him over to the ensuite lounge in his office so that he could stand in front of the floor-length mirror.

Yonina asked Michael to look at himself in the mirror. She then said seriously, "See for yourself, Michael! See how you look right now!"

In the mirror, Michael looked so pale with dark stubble all over his cheeks. He was exceptionally depressed right now.

"Do you think you could gain victory in this state?" Yonina pointed her finger at him and enunciated, "Be responsible? Terminate the contract? Don’t you think it is too late for you to say so? There is no turning back for me after I agreed to cooperate with you in the first place. You are right. If you give me an amount of money now, the Collins Group will be safe for the time being. How about you then? Do you ever think of yourself? Have you ever spared a thought for MC Enterprise? We are in a crucial period now. If you gave me the money, it implies that you will lose in the tendering exercise for sure. Christian has HG Enterprise as his backing, so he has sufficient funds all along. If you give me the money, how do you fight Christian? If Christian wins, MC Enterprise will suffer from bankruptcy too. Based on his character, do you think he will let the Collins Group off easily after he wins? Even if Christian doesn’t know about our cooperation yet, he would find out sooner or later! You are wrong, Michael. You are absolutely wrong. You should be thinking of a way to rectify and make up for your wrongdoing instead of ceasing the partnership and driving both of us up the wall!"

Yonina understood that Michael had had no choice but to say it. Essentially, he had been doing so for Yonina’s good. However, now that the story had played out like this, Yonina could not leave Michael to fight against Christian all by himself.

Just as she had said, if Michael went down, the Collins Group would not be safe either. They were already on the same boat.

Michael felt utterly regretful upon hearing what Yonina said. He thought of Wendy’s hatred towards him and Leah crying before he left the day before.

He could not help but raise his hand and slap himself hard. The crisp sound of the slap was loud and clear. However, he did not feel any pain at all.

His heart had already died long ago.

"Do you think you are so great now?" said Yonina without hesitation. She had to ensure that Michael knew what he was doing. "In fact, you are just a selfish man. Back then, when you asked Wendy to leave Lake City, shouldn’t you have protected them? However, look at what happened. You separated from your family. Now, you even want to terminate our partnership. Are you thinking that you are sacrificing yourself to protect the Collins Group? How ridiculous!"

Michael knew that she was right. However, he was really helpless now. He had lost all his hopes and his direction in life. He’d even started to question himself on why he wanted to defeat Christian so much. All he wanted to do now was to ignore everything.

He had already ruined a family with his own hands. Everything seemed to be meaningless for him now.

"I am sorry," said Michael. Except for apologizing, he did not know what else he could say to Yonina.

It was the first time Yonina had seen Michael in such devastation. He was so lifeless and aimless. If she hadn’t known him for so long, she would definitely suspect the person who stood in front of her now of being an imposter. Even his apology blew her fuse instantly. It seemed that Wendy had affected him a lot. His love for her was so profound that it made him lose himself completely.

Yonina shut her eyes and turned around as she said, "I will give Wendy a call to explain everything to her!"

Even though Michael had gone to Rheinsville City to look for Wendy in order to explain matters, who knew how he’d conveyed the message and what he had said to her.

"Don’t!" Michael grabbed her hand immediately, "Please don’t disturb Wendy on this anymore!"

Yonina lowered her head and saw how anxious Michael was when he held onto her hand. She was so furious right now, yet she could not bring herself to vent her anger on him.

She took a deep breath as she suppressed her frustration and nodded.

"Well then! I will not disturb her. You’d better hurry up on preparing the proposal. There is less than a month for us to draft the document before the tendering exercise. The clock is ticking!"

"I know. I will get it done right away," said Michael as he let go of her hand.

"Take a good rest now, and we will continue after you wake up," said Yunino, "It will be just a waste of time if we continue to talk about it in your current situation."

Yonina turned around and left his office. There was a bed in the lounge. Yet, though he had not slept for two days, he was not sleepy at all.

After Yonina left, the quietness in the office made his mind run wild. He was in great pain now. As if countless needles were sticking in his head at that particular moment.

Two hours later, Mr. York knocked at the office door, but no one responded from inside. Mr. York hesitated for a moment before calling out, "Mr. Lucas?"

None of the MC Enterprise’s employees could enter Michael’s office at will except for Mr. York. Mr. York was Michael’s personal assistant, so he could enter the office without knocking. However, with due respect, Mr. York still preferred to knock before entering.

There was still no response from inside. Mr. York was confused and entered the office without further ado. To his surprise, Michael was not at his desk.

Mr. York looked around, but Michael was still nowhere in sight. He frowned as he called out again, "Mr. Lucas?"

Mr. York walked out of the office and headed to the secretary’s office to ask her, "Is Mr. Lucas out?"

The secretary shook her head and said, "I didn’t see Mr. Lucas leave. He didn’t mention he was going out either."

"That’s strange. Where could he be?" Michael had not informed him that he was going out either.

If he needed to attend to something, he would usually inform Mr. York in advance to ease the handling of the matter. Hesitantly, Mr. York went into Michael’s office again.

This time, he saw the half-opened lounge door and went in. As expected, Michael was inside the lounge. However, he was not lying on the bed. He was lying on the floor instead.

"Mr. Lucas!" Mr. York was shocked. He rushed towards him and helped him up immediately. He tried to wake him up by calling his name but to no avail.

Suddenly, Mr. York smelled the strong odor of alcohol. He looked around and spotted a wine bottle on the floor. Mr. York was scared to death. He called security immediately, "Get a few of your men to the president’s office now!"

Michael was burning hot when Mr. York touched his skin. He arranged to send Michael to the hospital immediately. On the way to the hospital, Mr. York called Milo to inform him of Michael’s condition so that he could make the proper arrangements upon his arrival.

As soon as they arrived at the hospital, Michael was sent to the emergency room. Mr. York’s heart was pumping fast as he waited outside. He was so stunned at that particular moment. He didn’t know what had happened to Michael at all.

That’s right! Yonina had come to MC Enterprise today to look for Michael.

He called Yonina as soon as the thought occurred to him.

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Yonina rushed to the hospital as soon as she hung up the line. She arrived at the hospital twenty minutes later for what should have been a thirty minute trip.

She briskly walked to the emergency room and saw Mr. York waiting outside the room anxiously. She grabbed his hand and asked, "What happened? You didn’t explain over the phone just now. Why is he in the hospital all of a sudden?"

"I am going to ask you the same question, Ms. Collins..." Mr. York sighed. Then, he briefed her on what he knew, "I was looking for Mr. Lucas to sign a document just now in the office. However, I found him unconscious in the lounge instead. There was a wine bottle beside him on the floor.

"Wine bottle?" Yonina rolled her eyes. She was speechless, "He still has the mood to drink at this moment? How much wine did he drink just now that caused him to end up in the hospital instead?"

"I am not sure about the details. We’ll have to wait for the doctor to come out," said Mr. York worriedly. Then, he asked, "Did you find anything amiss when you saw Mr. Lucas earlier?"

"Yes, he was absolutely not himself today." said Yonina. Mr. York was Michael’s most trusted subordinate. Therefore, she could trust him. "He seems to have suffered a heavy blow over the matter with Wendy. When I saw him just now, his face was so pale. I asked him to get some rest before I left."

Yonina lowered her head. She blamed herself, "Was I being too harsh with him just now?"

She started to feel regretful. She should not have said those unpleasant words to him in the first place. Michael was an exceptionally proud person. Now that he had suffered such a heavy blow and was even facing failure, her words just now might have made him feel worse.

Yonina took a deep breath and said, "I should not have been too harsh with my words just now. I should have comforted him in this kind of situation instead."

"What did you say to Mr. Lucas?" Mr. York asked curiously.

"He intended to terminate our partnership. Then..." Yonina briefed him on what had happened this morning.

Mr. York sighed after Yonina told him everything. He did not know what else to say.

Both of them could only wait quietly outside the emergency room for the door to open.